Happy 95th, Big John.
Best day’s work I ever did was marrying your mom. – John D. Hull, III (May 17, 1928-December 27, 2012)
William Beard Hull (1837-1929), C.S.A.
William Beard Hull (1837-1929). Born Augusta County, Virginia. In 1858, as oldest son, Bill, 21, on saddle horse served as his family’s […]
Melissa Jane Holt Hull (1845-1918)
Melissa Jane Holt Hull (1845-1918). She was my great-great grandmother. Several living Hulls have a resemblance to Melissa. Born and died in […]
Mom, each year I try. I still don’t have the words.
July 1, 1950 My mother–to us, “Mom”–was and is that mom all the other kids in the neighborhoods we lived in wanted […]
Oscar Wilde on Moms.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. “• Oscar Wilde, The Importance […]
Partner Emeritus No. 5. PE Does ‘Nam, Cassandra, others (Part II)
I guarantee you one thing. If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. […]
The Greaseman: Powerboaters v. Sailboaters.
Get off your knees, guys.
Sharp Dressed Man: Raoul Duke is back from the Derby
Cuff links, stick pin. When I step out I’m gonna do you in. –Gibbons, Hill and Beard Raoul Duke (1937-2005)
The Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862.
Artist Unknown. “Mexican David defeating a French Goliath.” – Time Magazine, May 5, 2010
How to Work: When the MC5 summered in Detroit.
Detroit, July 19, 1970
Tennyson does May Day.
O, look! the sun begins to rise, the heavens are in a glow; He shines upon a hundred fields, and all of […]
Brian Neary’s Hawk.
A celebrated Hollywood polymath–television producer, songwriter and award-winning author–Brian Neary has written a spy novel that’s “not like the others.” It’s a […]
1950
This is what American Heroes look like. July 1, 1950. Miami. Both 22 years old. A jock. A fashion model. Both average […]
“Ernest, the French aren’t like you and me…”
“Yes, they have more class.” –With apologies to the famous Fitzgerald-Hemingway exchange. Like their natural enemy the English, the French are of […]
Spring 1597. Legal London. Consider Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Here is the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare,
The Viper Room: Lawyering Is A Backstage Pass to the World.
The Strip, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. As the fictional movie character John Milton said, law done right is a “backstage pass to […]
Salzburg, Austria: Mozart, salt, Huns and lawyers.
You may dream in American. But you still live in the world. Salzburg, Austria. Far from being a museum piece (e.g., Venice, […]
Earth Day 2023, Edition No. 53
Today is Earth Day, No. 53. The first was on April 22, 1970. It was started by the late U.S. Senator Gaylord […]
The Best of Partner Emeritus: On Stewardesses.
Flying is not the fun it used to be. If you came of age after The Great Neutering, here’s some great American […]
In Praise of Real Girls: Parker Posey
They’re picking up prisoners–and putting them in a pen. All she wants to do is dance. –Danny Kortchmar/WB Music Corp. ASCAP (1984) […]
